Garment hanger



April 13, 1937. E. F. ow

GARMENT HANGER Filed May 9, 1954 sllll a W V n j Patented Apr. 13, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,076,824 GARMENT HANGER Edward F. Ott, Bowmansville, N. Y.

Application May 9, 1934, Serial No. 724,660

3 Claims.

This invention relates generally to improvements in garment hangers but more particularly to a hanger designed for public wardrobe use.

One of its objects is to provide a hanger of this 5 character which is designed and constructed to support a plurality of garments and other wearing apparel, such as ones coat, hat, scarf, rubbers, etc., in a neat and compact manner.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a wardrobe hanger having means thereon for effectually supporting ones hat in a firm and stable position.

A further object is to provide a garment hanger which is simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, and whose various garment-engaging elements are disposed in substantially the same or common plane to afford compact storage of the hangers when not in use as well as close suspension of the hangers from a support when in use.

In the accompanying drawing:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment hanger embodying my invention. Figure 2 is an end view thereof. Figure 3 is a fragmentary front View of the hanger showing a hat in position thereon. Figure 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of the invention.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

This improved hanger, which has been designed more particularly for public wardrobe service, check rooms and the like to compactly and in a unitary fashion suspend thereon ones coat, hat, rubbers and like apparel, preferably consists of a skeleton-like body or frame constructed of a single length of wire or like material including a base portion or cross member ill, and a substantially arched coat-engaging portion l l. The free inner ends l2, iii of the coat-engaging portion are joined or twisted upon themselves in the manner shown in Figures 1 and 2 to provide an upstanding shank i l, the end l2 terminating in a suspension hook 15 by which the hanger may be hung from a suitable rod or support.

The companion shank-forming portion l3 extends laterally and outwardly from the shank to provide a hat-engaging hook it and cooperating therewith in operative relation thereto is a hatbriin engaging means which functions to retain the hat on the hook and prevent its accidental displacement therefrom. As shown in Figures 1 and 2, this retaining means is formed by providing a loop-shaped bend ll in the shank portion l2 below its hook it with the lower leg l8 thereof disposed in spaced relation to the adjoining portion of the hat-hook [6, whereby a resulting recess or loop 19 is provided which faces the latter. By this construction, when the crown of the hat is placed on the hook l6, its adjoining brim portion extends into the recess in the manner clearly shown in Figure 2 to firmly anchor the hat in place on this hanger.

In the modified form ofthe brim-engaging feature shown in Figure 4, the same is disposed at the opposite side of the shank Hi, the hat-hook 20 being at one side of the shank and the retaining loop or recess 2| being at the opposite side thereof, but functioning in the same way to receive the hat-brim.

As clearly shown in the drawing and particularly in Figure 3, the suspension hook I5 the hat hook I6 or 20 and the cooperating brimretaining elements l8 and I 9 or 2| are in substantially the common plane of the body or frame Ill, ll of the hanger, whereby a flat structure is provided to aiiord compact storage of the hangers when not in use as well as reducing to a minimum the space required when they are in use in supporting apparel. The arched portion or outwardly-extending arms H not only form a coathanger, but that arm adjoining the hat-hook l6 or 20 constitutes a support for the bottom of the hat when the hat is placed on the hook.

Applied to the cross member ill of the hanger and depending therefrom is a bag or container 22 in which rubbers, overshoes and like articles of apparel may be kept along with the other articles supported on the hanger, whereby all of ones be longings to be checked are borne by one and the same device, making for convenience of checking and reducing the liability of loss of checked apparel to a minimum. Furthermore, this wardrobe hanger is manifestly simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, it keeps the clothing smooth and free from wrinkling, and eliminates the many objections to the compartment type of wardrobe checking.

I claim as my invention:

1. A garment hanger, comprising a body member of wire formed in a flat plane and having a twisted shank and arms extending outwardly therefrom forming a coat-hanger, one of the strands thereof extending partially over and disposed in the plane of one of said body-arms and bent to provide a hat-engaging hook, and the other strand being disposed above and in a like plane with the first-named strand and having a lower portion extending partially over the latter and bent to form a recess opening toward the hook to receive the hat-brim and an upper portion bent in the plane of the body member to provide a suspension hook, one of the body arms forming a support for the bottom of a hat.

2. A garment hanger, comprising a body having outwardly-extending arms shaped to receive a coat and having a shank rising therefrom terminating in a suspension hook portion, and a hatengaging portion disposed between said body and its suspension hook and branching from said shank and including a hat-supporting hook and a recess facing the latter to receive the hat brim, all of said portions being in substantially the common plane of said body and one of said bodyarms constituting a support for the bottom of a hat.

3. A garment hanger, comprising a body member of wire having a twisted shank and arms extending outwardly from the lower end thereof to provide a coat-hanger, the upper end of one of the strands thereof being bent to provide a hat-engaging hook disposed above and in the plane of one of said body-arms and the other strand being disposed in the same plane and bent to form a recess opening toward the hook to receive the hat-brim, the recess-forming strand terminating in a suspension hook and the bodyarm below the hat-hook constituting a support for the bottom of the hat.

EDWARD F. O'IT. 

